The iPad In Elementary EducationPart 2: Studying Science

Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph.D.

One-to-One Technologies

Augmenting Human Intellect& Learning Capacity

21st Century Learning

•Three key characteristics:

•Ubiquity

•Intimacy

•Embeddedness

•Two metaphors:

•The Lively Sketchbook

•The Curiosity Amplifier

Defining Mobile Devices

SubstitutionTech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no

functional change

AugmentationTech acts as a direct tool substitute, with

functional improvement

ModificationTech allows for significant task redesign

RedefinitionTech allows for the creation of new tasks,

previously inconceivableEnhan

cemen

tTran

sformation

Podcasts on iTunes U: http://tinyurl.com/aswemayteach

Pedagogy C

ontent

Technology

PK CK

TK

PCK

TPK TCK

TPCK

More Information: http://tpck.org/

Social Mobility Visualization Storytelling Gaming

200,000years

70,000years

40,000years

17,000years

8,000years

21st Century Learning(Mishra & Kereluik)

• Foundational Knowledge

• Core Content Knowledge

• Information Literacy

• Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge/Synthesis

• Meta Knowledge

• Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

• Communication & Collaboration

• Creativity & Innovation

• Humanistic Knowledge

• Life & Job Skills

• Cultural Competence

• Ethical & Emotional Awareness

P. Mishra and K. Kereluik. What is 21st Century Learning? A review and synthesis. SITE2011 Conference Presentation. (March, 2011)

Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)(Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001)

Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create

Factual Knowledge

Conceptual Knowledge

Procedural Knowledge

Meta-CognitiveKnowledge

Lorin W. Anderson and David R. Krathwohl (Eds.), A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Complete Edition. Longman. (2000)

Critical Thinking:Cognitive Skills and Subskills

Skill Subskills

Interpretation• Categorization• Decoding Significance• Clarifying Meaning

Analysis• Examining Ideas• Identifying Arguments• Analyzing Arguments

Evaluation • Assessing Claims• Assessing Arguments

Inference• Querying Evidence• Conjecturing Alternatives• Drawing Conclusions

Explanation• Stating Results• Justifying Procedures• Presenting Arguments

Self-Regulation • Self-examination• Self-correction

Peter Facione, Critical Thinking: A Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction - Executive Summary. "The Delphi Report". American Philosophical Association, Committee on Pre-College Philosophy. California Academic Press, 1990

Understanding Science:How Science Works

Supportive, contradictory, surprisingor inconclusive data may...

Developtechnology

Addresssocietal issues

Satisfycuriosity

Solve everydayproblems

Buildknowledge

Informpolicy

Makingobservations

Askingquestions

Findinginspiration

Exploring theliterature

Sharing dataand ideas

...oppose ahypothesis.

Discussion withcolleagues

Feedback andpeer review

Coming upwith new

questions/ideas

Publication

Replication

Theorybuilding

EXPLORATIONAND DISCOVERY

COMMUNITYANALYSIS AND

FEEDBACK

BENEFITS ANDOUTCOMES

TESTINGIDEAS

Gathering data

Interpreting data

New technology

Curiosity

Practical problem

Personal motivation

Surprising observation

Serendipity

Hypotheses Expectedresults/observations

Actualresults/observations

...support ahypothesis.

... inspirerevised/newhypothesis.

... inspirerevised

assumptions.

How science works

www.understandingscience.org© 2008 The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, and the Regents of the University of California

A Guide to Aligning the Common Core State Standardswith the Framework for 21st Century Skills

P21 Common Core Toolkit

Using the Framework for K-12 Science Education

• Core Idea PS4: Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

• PS4.A: Wave Properties• What are the characteristic behaviors and properties of

waves?• PS4.B: Electromagnetic Radiation

• What is light?• How can one explain the varied effects that involve light?• What other forms of electromagnetic radiation are there?

• PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation• How are instruments that transmit and detect waves

used to extend human senses?

Observe Waves

Basic Waves

Math Waves

Other Waves

Measuring Waves

Flipping the Classroom:Finding & Creating Resources

Brief Lecture or Group Discussion(~10 minutes)

ConcepTest(~1-2 minutes)

Between 30-75% of students answer correctly

Fewer than 30% of students answer correctly

More than 75% ofstudents answer correctly

Peer Discussion:students try to convince each other

(~2-3 minutes)

!e instructorexplains remaining misconceptions

!e instructorrevisits and explains the concept

ConcepTest(~1-2 minutes)

Flipping the Classroom:ConcepTests

Mazur, E. Peer Instruction - A User's Manual. Prentice Hall (1997)

Which of these scenarios does not describe an acceleration?

A. A car going round a circular racetrack at constant speed.

B. A car traveling on a straight racetrack at constant speed.

C.A stone falling from the top of a building.

D. A simple pendulum.

Additional Resources – Part I

Augmenting Human Intellect & Learning Capacity:• Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”. The Atlantic Monthly. (July 1945) Online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/• Douglas C. Engelbart, A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect. (December 1968 live

demo) Archived online at:http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

• Alan Kay, “A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages”. Proceedings of the ACM National Conference. Boston (August 1972) Online at:http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf

• Seymour Papert, “On Making a Theorem for a Child”. Proceedings of the ACM National Conference. Boston (August 1972) Online at:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=569942

SAMR and TPCK:• Ruben R. Puentedura, Transformation, Technology, and Education. (2006) Online at:

http://hippasus.com/resources/tte/• Ruben R. Puentedura, As We May Teach: Educational Technology, From Theory Into Practice. (2009)

Online at:http://tinyurl.com/aswemayteach

• TPCK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. (2008-2010) Online at:http://www.tpck.org/tpck/index.php?title=Main_Page

• AACTE (Eds.) The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Educators. New York:Routledge, 2008.

Additional Resources – Part II

Defining Mobile Devices/The Lively Sketchbook:• Ruben R. Puentedura, “Drawing On The Lively Sketchbook”. Connect@NMC Talks. (2010) Online at:

http://archive.nmc.org/connect/2010/april/16• Ruben R. Puentedura, “The Lively Sketchbook”. (2010) Online at:

http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/2010_01.html

The Curiosity Amplifier:• John Seely Brown. “A New Culture of Learning”. NMC Summer Conference, Closing Keynote. (2010)

Online at:http://archive.nmc.org/2010-summer-conference/jsb-keynote-video

Technology In Education: The First 200,000 Years:• Ruben R. Puentedura. “Technology In Education: The First 200,000 Years”. NMC Summer

Conference, Ideas that Matter Presentation. (2012) Online at:http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/000069.html

Additional Resources – Part III

21st Century Learning, Bloom's Taxonomy and Critical Thinking:• P. Mishra and K. Kereluik. “What is 21st Century Learning? A review and synthesis.” SITE2011

Conference Presentation. (2011) Online at:http://punya.educ.msu.edu/presentations/site2011/SITE_2011_21st_Century.pdf

• Lorin W. Anderson and David R. Krathwohl (Eds.) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Complete Edition. Longman. (2000)

• Peter Facione, Critical Thinking: A Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction - Executive Summary. "The Delphi Report". American Philosophical Association, Committee on Pre-College Philosophy. California Academic Press. (1990) Online at:http://www.insightassessment.com/content/download/623/4009/file/DEXadobe.PDF

Science for Students:• University of California Museum of Paleontology. Understanding Science: how science really works.

(2008) Online at:http://undsci.berkeley.edu/index.php

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. P21 Common Core Toolkit: A Guide to Aligning the Common Core State Standards with the Framework for 21st Century Skills. (2012) Online at:http://www.p21.org/tools-and-resources/publications/p21-common-core-toolkit

• Committee on Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards; National Research Council. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. (2012) Online at:http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165

• E. Mazur. Peer Instruction - A User's Manual. Prentice Hall (1997)

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